Afternoon tea recipes
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Afternoon tea recipes
Mini doughnut muffins
Martha Collison's mini jam doughnut muffins are a quick fix when you're craving doughnuts – they make a moreish afternoon tea treat.
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Afternoon tea recipes
Custard doughnuts
Recreate Bread Ahead Bakery's famous vanilla custard doughnuts – soft, pillowy and oozing rich custard – at home using their recipe.
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Biscuit recipes
Savoyard cruche
Often served as a petit four or alongside a cup of coffee, this French-inspired sweet treat is a cross between a biscuit and fudge.
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Brunch recipes
Chocolate babka
A cross between bread and cake that's swirled with cinnamon-spiced chocolate – this chocolate babka recipe is worth every bit of effort.
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Afternoon tea recipes
Giant Jaffa cake
Here's a fun cake to serve at afternoon tea: a giant Jaffa cake complete with soft sponge base, orange jelly layer and chocolate top.
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Biscuit recipes
Nigella Lawson’s chocolate biscuits
Nigella Lawson's recipe for simple chocolate biscuits, melt-in-the-mouth bites, perfect for afternoon tea, with a fork decoration on top
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Chocolate cake recipes
Flourless chocolate cake
Crisp on the outside and gooey on the inside, this flourless chocolate cake is delicious served with double cream. An afternoon tea winner.
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Fruit tart recipes
Nectarine rose tart
Gorgeous to look at and even better to eat – this beautiful nectarine rose tart recipe will be the hero of any afternoon tea.
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Apricot recipes
Baamkuch
Baamkuch, Luxembourg's popular 'tree-cake', has been simplified to bring you a moist, apricot layer cake. A superb addition to afternoon tea.
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Sweet bread recipes
Kouign amann
These buttery French pastries – a Breton cousin to the croissant – are so irresistible you'll struggle to limit yourself to one.
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Afternoon tea recipes
Summer cupcakes to flavour three ways
These cute cupcakes are ideal for a summery afternoon tea and can be flavoured three ways: blueberry, cherry ripple or lemon and earl grey.
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Sandwich recipes
Finger sandwiches
Our selection of dainty finger sandwiches for afternoon tea have fillings ranging from cream cheese and cucumber to tea-smoked salmon.
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Loaf cake recipes
James Martin’s classic lemon drizzle cake
James Martin's easy lemon drizzle cake recipe is perfect for afternoon tea with a proper cup of tea, or to surprise your mum on Mother's Day.
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Blueberry recipes
Blueberry and polenta shortcake
Debbie Major's blueberry shortcake comes straight from her childhood memories of home-cooked summer treats at her best friend's house.
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Scone recipes
Perfect scones
These are the perfect scones for afternoon tea: light, not too sweet and topped with thick clotted cream and your favourite jam.
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Fantastical recipes for World Book Day
Pop cakes
These pop cakes are inspired by the honey-filled cakes in Enid Blyton's Faraway Tree books. When you bite into them, honey oozes out.
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